Commission may require frack fluid ID

House Speaker Robbie Wills mailed letters to all state political candidates following the general election. He congratulated winners and offered praise to losers for trying. When we say "all" candidates we mean "all."

Ticket scalping is illegal in Arkansas, but it occurs. This weekend, some sold items of nominal value, with tickets thrown in, as a scalping avoidance device. A sign on one truck read: "Two Cokes for sale — $16,000. 16 game tickets included."

Your headline, "La belle vie" — is that French for "or how to steal from the saps back home"? I don't speak French but that's the attitude people like Ron Mathieu and "Mayor" Stodola must have after reading your article.

It has been revealed that an already warm relationship between the mayor's office and the Chamber of Commerce was heated further by a sumptuous dinner in Paris, paid for by those inveterate romantics, the taxpayers of Little Rock.

It is only a little premature to ponder the unthinkable, a Mike Huckabee presidential nomination and, yes, even a Huckabee presidency.

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A TV announcer said the other day that the word "lateral" no longer appears in the football rulebook. What used to be called a "lateral" is now referred to as a "backward pass," he said. Disturbing news.

Amid Department of Arkansas Heritage project.

I am frustrated and angry with those who claim the only chance of future success is for the Democratic Party, especially in the South and Midwest, to abandon speaking directly to women and people of color and the LGBT community and instead focus on the economy and other "more comfortable" topics in order to win back some of the center.

Plus, recipes from the Times staff.

The Arkansas Supreme Court today upheld state statutes that mandate a court order to list parent names on a birth certificate other than the biological mother and father. The Court threw out the ruling of Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Tim Fox, who found last year that the state Health Department had violated the Constitution by refusing to list both parent names of children of same-sex couples (the children of the three couples who were plaintiffs in the case were conceived via sperm donation).

The Times' coverage of the case since 1994.

Airport expansion, empty lots and Little Rock's fading East End.

Contrary to Tea Party fantasies, it wasn't plucky private entrepreneurs who paved the roads, strung the wire, saved grandpa from penury and made organized commerce across the rural South possible. It was federal and state investment.